They are carring vagina’s not guns, there is a difference.

and now to be politically incorrect
How come Conservative Republican women are so much more attractive and hotter than the Liberal Democratic females??

I understand that Progressives want to win elections but why are we always told by the “cognoscenti” that we must unilaterally disarm and not mention our progressive stances. However, the right wing noise machine of Fox News can blare things out at hurricane force and politicians can appear there with no apparent harm to their standings saying the most outlandish blandishments?

Protests like these and Occupy protests are fine BUT, the time and effort spent on these could and should be better spent in getting out the vote for candidates that support their position. Politicians don’t care about any of these protests unless they think that it will translate in their losing office. Focus on what is important people. Get candidates to run and then vote for them.

what hogwash

those being driven in the opposite direction are a small minority (since you noticably left out any evidence any even are in measurable numbers) — like you — that apparently couldn’t grasp the extensive covergae of the TM case wasn’t over him so much as shining a spotlight on the issue behind his death — “stand your ground” laws, and those responsible for them — ALEC — which the aforementioned is but one example of. You probably denounced their coverage of the now dead Rodney King back in the day too, no?

Increasingly I see and experience, people are getting sick and tired of your kind that thinks playing nice with what they see as rightwingnut kooks, as both enabling and counterproductive. Were you referring to those life-threatening injuries Zimmerman’s wife patched up as a cause for their sudden silence and dropping of the case? Are you suggesting that their efforts to be as factual as possible in the midst of their outrage is any way comparable to the lies/fact-free garbage the opposition peddles and uses in support of their “righteousness”? This reads to me like you want the “Lord of the Flies” crew to be free of any countervailing force, like a coach demanding that his team be cheerleader-free, and replaced by drama-free nerds spouting off about the role of Newtonian mechanics in the game. What’s next, a “just the facts maam” mandate for the left with which to oppose the opposition who see the truth as their biggest existential threat?

In the words of Saint Raygun “Morality and politics are inseparable”, so who are you to deny moral indignation and the voicing of it to those who honestly feel it and can support it with the facts in tow — unlike their opposition much/most of the time? Oh that’s right, this is but one shining example of that “liberal media” myth (as it is) about how “both sides do it!”, which leaves out any examination whatsoever of the totality of the known facts and the honest and dishonest use of them respectively by party so compared.

If anybody is turning people off in large numbers, it’s that type issuing commentary and admonitions full of “righteous indignation” over others making presumably, mountains outta molehills, like the stand your ground laws or female congresspeople being silenced/censored aren’t worthy of contempt, coverage, and with commentary that matches the former. Meanwhile the pathological and chronic lying of someone like Romney is barely on their radar, and if an MSNBC lefty harped on it day in and day out with descriptive terms like “LIAR!”, you’d be punishing such abuses of the truth too, no?

The simple truth of the matter is, “morality” is the putrid soil from which the Ryan plan, their “let them eat dirt/die”, anti-science, warmongering, torture support, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, sexiam, pov of views grow from, so your efforts to condemn and silence those morally and ideologically opposed to all that, and the only effective methods they have to promote it, makes you at best a paver of the road to hell with your misguided intentions, and at worst, their mouthpiece. You see, noticably absent from the work of all your kind, are options other than silence for the left in the face of the lying rightwing goons in this great “moral” war we’re embroiled in, which is both amusing and disgusting, since they’ve made it clear for some time now, that turning the other cheek and taking the high road as you seem to promote, is an invitation to and almost always results in, them at least trying to smack both cheeks off.

No Rodney, we can’t all get along, because one side has zero interest in it. Take your moral indignation and shove it.

Mr. Lyons—have you given the same sermon to Fox News and their pundits?

There are low,classed folks in each party But we libs are sick and tired of Bagger run GOP trying to ban birth control- control womens reproduction- Stay the hell out of womens personal lives DO your job Forget busting unions- lowering wages- and judging women – and calling unions workers THUGS Thats the GOP devious little word game to demonize everyone except themselves

Mr. Lyons, I read your columns every week, and so much appreciate your concise and perceptive comments. While I agree that the MSNBC hosts were at times over the top with their “Moral Indignation”, I think you failed to acknowledge that a large part of that indignation (and I think the main point of it) was that fact that George Zimmerman had not been arrested. Trayvon Martin
was shot on February 26th. The story became a fixture on MSNBC in late March, the 21st is the earliest evidence I can find. That was the story – the injustice of the fact that this boy had been killed and no investigation was forthcoming. I think it’s very possible that without the media attention, there would have been no charges brought, and no opportunity for all the facts to come out. The story began to die down on MSNBC after the arrest was finally made on April 11. As the MSNBC hosts often pointed out, this arrest and opportunity for investigation and fact finding was the main desire of his parents. This was the driving point, as I saw it, for the very emotional coverage by MSNBC. When the arrest was made and the investigation underway, that goal had been achieved, and the network hosts stepped back to let justice take its course.

My opinion is that most Americans (Dem. or Rep.) are more moderate in their beliefs than what the Party affiliations right or left stance is portrayed. The Tea Party is so far to the right, that they confuse them selves with the Evangelicals. For the life of me, I do not understand nor can I comprehend how such strong Christian Moral People can hate another human with every fiber of there being! it is my understanding that God gave man free will? Our free will allows to make moral decisions based on our circumstances. Right or wrong, it is a decision that we make. Our Constitution gives us the Law of the land and explains out rights as Americans. My whole life I have been told that out Constitution is a living breathing document. Which means it can be changed to meet the needs of the people. Can someone explain to me, or point out to me when exactly in our short history as a Nation; did Freedom of Religion only mean that America’s only choice was Freedom of Christianity? Whom ever